BIT352 Database Administration

Database Administration old question papers

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Tribhuvan University

Bachelor of Information Technology

Semester 6 · TU Board 2081

Course Title: Database Administration (BIT352)

Full Marks: 60Pass Marks: 24Time: 3 hours

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group A

Attempt any Two questions.(2 × 10 = 20)

  1. 1.

    What are different database administration tasks? Explain Oracle Data Guard in brief.

    10
  2. 2.

    What is initialization parameter file? Differentiate between Spfile and Pfile. Explain some oracle defined roles with suitable example.

    10
  3. 3.

    What is Tablespace? What is UNDO RETENTION Policy? Write different commands to manage the tablespaces in Oracle.

    10

Group B

Attempt any Eight questions(8 × 5 = 40)

  1. 4.

    What is privilege? Write commands to create user, grant privilege, revoke privilege and drop user in oracle database.

    5
  2. 5.

    What is Oracle AWR? How AWR report is viewed in oracle?

    5
  3. 6.

    What is Data Pump? Explain the procedure of exporting and importing data using Oracle Data Pump.

    5
  4. 7.

    Explain the concept of Container database and Portable database.

    5
  5. 8.

    What is Job and Job classes? Create an event-based schedule in Oracle.

    5
  6. 9.

    What is Extent? Explain Row chaining and Migration in brief.

    5
  7. 10.

    What is Role? Create a Role called "general" and grant privileges to the role general and assign that role to a user in oracle.

    5
  8. 11.

    Why do you think database auditing plays a significant role? Explain.

    5
  9. 12.

    Write short notes on: a. Audit Trail b. SQL Tuning Advisor

    5

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